Drama Games: Deleted Scenes

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Aim and Purpose

• Collaborative work.

• Cognitive development.

• Increase understanding of source material.

• Revealing relationships in abstract situations.

Materials/Resources

• Paper and pens.

Order of Activity

• This games should follow prior work on a topic such as a reading or discussion of an historical event.

• Have the group split into smaller groups of 2 - 3.

• Distribute pens and paper.

• Have each group write a conversation that could have occurred between the characters from the play or figures from history.

• Conversations should be from an event not covered on the book or a fictional conversation that may have happened but there is no record of. In the manner of a "deleted scene" from a movie.

• After writing their conversations smaller groups read them aloud for the whole group.

Conversation examples:

• Churchill and Eisenhower during WWII

• Willy Wonka and the Parents after their children disappear.

Notes on the Game

• This game allows players to get into the minds of the characters or individuals they are learning about.

• Because of the nature of this game it may take a few sessions to complete.

• If there is any information that you need incorporated into the conversations this should be prefaced at the start of the game.

Extensions to the Game

• The conversations do not have to be between people. They could be between Oil and Water (showing how they repel one another), between nations during WWII.

• If time allows the conversations can be developed into fully fledged scenes to be performed.

Drama Games Unit D: Deeper Thinking Games

References

Dahl, R. (1964). Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. New York: Knopf.